Thread: Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG)
Hi,
I was recently attending the Postgres Open 2013 conference in Chicago and was speaking to some people who are from Toronto like myself (Steve Singer and Brad Nicholson). We noted that there isn't a PUG in Toronto.
We would like to start the Toronto Postgres Users' Group with the first meeting starting in January, 2014.
Could you please let us know what we will need to do to become an officially recognized PUG?
Thanks,
Faisal Akber
Hi Faisal,
On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Faisal Akber wrote:
Hi,I was recently attending the Postgres Open 2013 conference in Chicago and was speaking to some people who are from Toronto like myself (Steve Singer and Brad Nicholson). We noted that there isn't a PUG in Toronto.We would like to start the Toronto Postgres Users' Group with the first meeting starting in January, 2014.Could you please let us know what we will need to do to become an officially recognized PUG?
There is no "official process" per se - but if you would like to be listed here (http://www.postgresql.org/community/user-groups/) we just need a link to either your homepage (e.g. on meetup.com) and/or mailing list. If you want a @postgresql.org mailing list, you can ask one of the admins on -www to set one up. Meetup.com also provides mailing lists too.
You may want to consider a different name than TPUG as there are already a bunch of cities / areas that begin with "T" - maybe TORPUG? Of course, if the other Toronto tech user groups tend to be "T"-something, it should be fine.
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for your quick reply. I do plan on creating a Meetup account. Once that's done, I'm guessing that the fine folks at the -www group can help add the Meetup links to the user-groups link. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, to your point of using T versus TOR for the short name of the group. Here in Toronto, many of the groups like the Toronto Linux Users' Group (TLUG) and the Toronto Hadoop Users' Group (THUG) already follow this pattern. This is the reason why I chose that as the short name. I will think about your suggestion and talk to Steve and Brad to see what they think.
Thanks again for your help.
Faisal Akber
From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
To: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, steve@ssinger.info, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "Jignesh Shah" <jshah@vmware.com>
Sent: Friday, 15 November, 2013 12:25:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG)
To: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, steve@ssinger.info, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "Jignesh Shah" <jshah@vmware.com>
Sent: Friday, 15 November, 2013 12:25:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG)
Hi Faisal,
On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Faisal Akber wrote:
Hi,I was recently attending the Postgres Open 2013 conference in Chicago and was speaking to some people who are from Toronto like myself (Steve Singer and Brad Nicholson). We noted that there isn't a PUG in Toronto.We would like to start the Toronto Postgres Users' Group with the first meeting starting in January, 2014.Could you please let us know what we will need to do to become an officially recognized PUG?
There is no "official process" per se - but if you would like to be listed here (http://www.postgresql.org/community/user-groups/) we just need a link to either your homepage (e.g. on meetup.com) and/or mailing list. If you want a @postgresql.org mailing list, you can ask one of the admins on -www to set one up. Meetup.com also provides mailing lists too.
You may want to consider a different name than TPUG as there are already a bunch of cities / areas that begin with "T" - maybe TORPUG? Of course, if the other Toronto tech user groups tend to be "T"-something, it should be fine.
Jonathan
Hi Faisal,
Thank you for your quick reply. I do plan on creating a Meetup account. Once that's done, I'm guessing that the fine folks at the -www group can help add the Meetup links to the user-groups link. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Or just paste the link on this thread - I will most likely be the one to add it to the site.
Also, to your point of using T versus TOR for the short name of the group. Here in Toronto, many of the groups like the Toronto Linux Users' Group (TLUG) and the Toronto Hadoop Users' Group (THUG) already follow this pattern. This is the reason why I chose that as the short name. I will think about your suggestion and talk to Steve and Brad to see what they think.
I was more curious in terms of the abbreviation - on the site it will go up as "Toronto PostgreSQL User Group" but if the abbreviation "TPUG" makes more sense based on how tech groups are named in Toronto, by all means go for it!
Jonathan
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: here is already a mailing list left over from an attempt at a toronto pug from years ago. http://www.postgresql.org/list/torontopug/ > Hi Faisal, > Thank you for your quick reply. I do plan on creating a Meetup account. Once that's done, I'm > guessing that the fine folks at the -www group can help add the Meetup links to the user-groups > link. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > Or just paste the link on this thread - I will most likely be the one to add it to the site. > > Also, to your point of using T versus TOR for the short name of the group. Here in Toronto, many > of the groups like the Toronto Linux Users' Group (TLUG) and the Toronto Hadoop Users' Group > (THUG) already follow this pattern. This is the reason why I chose that as the short name. I > will think about your suggestion and talk to Steve and Brad to see what they think. > > > I was more curious in terms of the abbreviation - on the site it will go up as "Toronto PostgreSQL User Group" > but if the abbreviation "TPUG" makes more sense based on how tech groups are named in Toronto, by all means go > for it! > > Jonathan > >
On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > > > here is already a mailing list left over from an attempt at a toronto pug from years ago. http://www.postgresql.org/list/torontopug/ Great - have you come up with a meetup page yet? Sorry for the delay, but I will add that list to the PUG page now. Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for keeping us in mind. :) We don't have the meetup page up yet. You may want to wait until I get the Meetup page setup, which may be next week sometime. Thanks, Faisal Akber ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> To: "Steve Singer" <steve@ssinger.info> Cc: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "JigneshShah" <jshah@vmware.com> Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2013 10:23:38 AM Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG) On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > > > here is already a mailing list left over from an attempt at a toronto pug from years ago. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.postgresql.org/list/torontopug/&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=WsZWEciRNzqNSBERNZ9RzqxjtWdBkzx%2FO1mIcRrbWKI%3D%0A&m=lYMRdl2%2FfSKVCJtUg7FRceyDQC%2FFWY8it41HsLZyuqM%3D%0A&s=3769022d08925c152b7be24c362d36e56762f1ae35e4b500bbdf070700176fd0 Great - have you come up with a meetup page yet? Sorry for the delay, but I will add that list to the PUG page now. Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, I've been busy for a bit. I've created a Meetup Page for the Toronto PUG. The link for it is below: http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Postgres-User-Group/ Thanks, Faisal Akber ----- Original Message ----- From: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com> To: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> Cc: "Steve Singer" <steve@ssinger.info>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "JigneshShah" <jshah@vmware.com> Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2013 11:08:25 AM Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG) Hi Jonathan, Thanks for keeping us in mind. :) We don't have the meetup page up yet. You may want to wait until I get the Meetup page setup, which may be next week sometime. Thanks, Faisal Akber ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> To: "Steve Singer" <steve@ssinger.info> Cc: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "JigneshShah" <jshah@vmware.com> Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2013 10:23:38 AM Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG) On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > > > here is already a mailing list left over from an attempt at a toronto pug from years ago. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.postgresql.org/list/torontopug/&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=WsZWEciRNzqNSBERNZ9RzqxjtWdBkzx%2FO1mIcRrbWKI%3D%0A&m=lYMRdl2%2FfSKVCJtUg7FRceyDQC%2FFWY8it41HsLZyuqM%3D%0A&s=3769022d08925c152b7be24c362d36e56762f1ae35e4b500bbdf070700176fd0 Great - have you come up with a meetup page yet? Sorry for the delay, but I will add that list to the PUG page now. Jonathan -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=WsZWEciRNzqNSBERNZ9RzqxjtWdBkzx%2FO1mIcRrbWKI%3D%0A&m=%2BjBcu3lZ5NMyleEY3S%2B%2F3W6PYtRjeSMOPkr1%2Btj6iH8%3D%0A&s=9bd8d108e62ffeaadc95d426f3cfba5cdf26b17afd04617cef373a0439677905
On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Faisal Akber wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I've been busy for a bit. I've created a Meetup Page for the Toronto PUG. > > The link for it is below: > http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Postgres-User-Group/ > > Thanks, > Faisal Akber Excellent - it is now listed on the PUGs page. Best, Jonathan
That's great! Thank you very much! Faisal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> To: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com> Cc: "Steve Singer" <steve@ssinger.info>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "JigneshShah" <jshah@vmware.com> Sent: Tuesday, 21 January, 2014 3:09:20 PM Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG) On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Faisal Akber wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I've been busy for a bit. I've created a Meetup Page for the Toronto PUG. > > The link for it is below: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Postgres-User-Group/&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=WsZWEciRNzqNSBERNZ9RzqxjtWdBkzx%2FO1mIcRrbWKI%3D%0A&m=wSCL8wGSamPtzm%2FtkvwRDQEX1EeBZZM1MmjoF62Tei0%3D%0A&s=374c2f875b82fdec500b53c3dba65cafcb876d189806c2bcdd7344aa7c9bdbb6 > > Thanks, > Faisal Akber Excellent - it is now listed on the PUGs page. Best, Jonathan